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[taylor @thetayminator]

The problem with the twitter algo is that you interact with anything related to books and now your whole feed is people who’ve been moved by Sally Rooney

[taylor @thetayminator]

@dogshit95 i like “immeadiacy” where’s that from?

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@Fl0atingSign Very imaginative observation

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@fathermencken what else is literature for?

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@CitizenBego don’t know what exactly we’re referring to here but definitely sounds like the sort of vapid gimmick a writer who lacks authorial identity does right after reading their first Pynchon

[taylor @thetayminator]

@juanignacio_ac meanwhile goodreads was always mainly populated by the YA/vapid litfic/Sarah J. Maas fantasy types of people, and well, that’s what they like

[taylor @thetayminator]

@juanignacio_ac think it’s also a matter of inverse situations, lbox used to be mostly filled with cinephiles but gradually became rife with casual watchers as well, which is why a lot of great though inaccessible classics and recent, sloppier films share high ratings

[taylor @thetayminator]

@lazynjnja46074 @ashwxrya oh my god seriously?!

[taylor @thetayminator]

@ashwxrya @deathcloudmetal i like that gr forces the 5-point limit on me tho, get to think harder about how i feel about a book and whether it’s better or worse than i immediately think it is. oftentimes causes me to appreciate a lot of things i wouldn’t initially have

[Ash @ashwxrya]

Letterboxd users have no idea how good they have it

[taylor @thetayminator]

@litdotsalon definitely an improvement but only Nabokov and Kafka really deserve to be there. Blood Meridian being #1 is such a joke

[taylor @thetayminator]

@sethiankit @eternalscrunge you can say that shit is not funny to you, but to say it as if everyone agrees, “less is more” is to softly imply that comedy is one of those things where everyone is aspiring for The One True Joke and that’s just not how it works

[taylor @thetayminator]

@sethiankit @eternalscrunge the way i said it i wouldn’t conflate the statements “i don’t want to minmax my jokes” with “i’m okay with being a mediocre artist”

people have individual styles; for many leaning into these styles is far more rewarding than being more appealing to some other audience

[taylor @thetayminator]

@adrianrta1 dats just how it goes, pride yourself on what you’ve done rather than what u fail to do

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@mothersboard jeff’s solo stuff, especially WORRY, retains a lot of the cheesiness but is a lot easier on the ears. some of the songs on that album are total earworms too, such good driving/running music

[taylor @thetayminator]

@eternalscrunge @sethiankit The maximalism is an idiosyncratic quality! Comedy is not meant to be homogeneous and jokes are not meant to be min-maxxed for the greatest possible effect. I hated this discourse also when people were editing comics (eg Haus of Decline) to omit dialogue

[taylor @thetayminator]

@topgunlover334 @cycloidalmusic Idk man you don’t just throw around terms like that as if you’re ignorant to the fact that they carry heavy connotations of associated genre and subculture, like how u can’t say “postmodern” for just anything that came after the modernists

[taylor @thetayminator]

@cycloidalmusic Barring the misidentification of genre, in general we just need to do away with the “niche commentator to wider public” shtick a lot of people are doing. Just talk about the things you’re into! People will search up the obscure things you say if they want to know more

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@Allodoxaa I love having decade-long beefs even if I’m wrong it’s just fun. One of mine was against the “A huge wave of zombies is coming” alert in Plants vs Zombies until I realized it was actually grammatically correct